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Pakistan Broadband Landscape – Infographic

Sibtain Jiwani — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 10:16:31 +0000

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Pakistan broadband growth at 64% – expected to cross 4 Million in 2014

Khurram Zahid — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 00:01:31 +0000

So you know what we are all – Broadband and Internet in Pakistan – and we keep a close eye on trends and see how things are shaping up with respect to Broadband uptake and penetration in the country.

Telecom indicators, as published by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), have shown remarkable increase in the number of broadband subscribers – month by month – over the past two years across all sorts of broadband technologies – wired or wireless.

In 2011, for example, total number of broadband subscribers in Pakistan stood at 0.9 Million and jumped close to 2.0 Million by the end of 2012. These trends were exciting – we know how the Internet has help develop countries and societies across the globe – and we know internet awareness will play a powerful role in the development and progress in Pakistan too.

We ran a quick analysis, threw in some number crunching, and have expect broadband growth to stand at 64 percent by the end of 2014 – with broadband subscribers to cross 4.2 Million by the end of this year. This is rapid growth and the momentum just seems to be increasing with every month. Our extrapolation is based on the existing trend.

The graph above shows a year on year (Y-o-Y) comparison of how broadband penetration has grown in Pakistan. We have already written about how the internet is instrumental in the social uplift of societies and countries and we expect good things to come our way in the days to come.

Feel free to share your comments and feedback with us below!

Khurram Zahid

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Pakistan Broadband Subscribers cross 2.2 Million

Khurram Zahid — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:01:33 +0000

When we started this website almost two years ago, Pakistan had barely crossed 1 Million Broadband subscribers. This was an important growth figure as Pakistan had only 26,000+ subscribers in 2006 compared to almost 1 Million by Early 2011.

In less than two years, this number has more than doubled to almost 2.25 Million (as per PTA statistics last updated in October 2012). The year on year growth figures are exciting and speak of the prospects the broadband industry has to offer.

Broadband subscribers, by technology, are mentioned below:

DSL (Landline based): 913,102 subscribers
EVDO (CDMA Based Wireless Broadband): 700,214 subscribers
WiMAX (Wireless Broadband): 587,967 subscribers
HFC: 34,141 subscribers
Fiber to the Home (FTTH): 9,299 subscribers
Others/Not Classified: 3,069 subscribers

Broadband internet access with quality local content will definitely lead to social uplift and progress for Pakistan and its people.

Khurram Zahid

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